{"id":631393,"date":"2026-06-10T15:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T15:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/631393\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T15:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T15:42:09","slug":"further-renovations-planned-for-george-hotel-in-huddersfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/631393\/","title":{"rendered":"Further renovations planned for George Hotel in Huddersfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Further renovation work will take place at a Huddersfield hotel, seen as the birthplace of rugby league in 1895.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Grade II* listed George Hotel has been vacant since 2013 and was bought by Kirklees Council in 2020, with the aim of refurbishing the building as part of a plan to transform the town centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In May last year, updated proposals were submitted to Kirklees Council, including an increase in the number of rooms from 91 to 108.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Plans have now been submitted for a detailed ground investigation to show the building is safe and stable, before the partial demolition and extension of the hotel takes place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Further renovation work will take place at a Huddersfield hotel, seen as the birthplace of rugby league in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-631393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}